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HI FRIEND...I HOPE you received your card......Its been ROUGH around here....one of my dogs is dying and it is AWFUL.....They are our "furry babies".....Its also making me think EVEN MORE about PAPA...UGH....Im starting sessions with a new therapist soon...She seems really nice and empathetic to MY NEEDS....SO SAD and ALONE at times......HOPE YOU are as OK as can be DEAR FRIEND.....LOVE and HUGS WONDERFUL FRIEND.....XXXOOO

AH, YES, I would have to AGREE dear FRIEND...LOL. HARD day today....its the one yr anniversary of us finding papa in his home.....The 5th through the 8th is HARD every month (especially December,obviously) because the 5th was my last day I was with my papa, the 6th was the day I talked to him and after we hung up the phone he died a few hrs later (and I didnt know it, UGH! Steve, the PAIN!!!!), the 7th he lay DEAD in his hallway all alone the whole day and night ..AHHHHHHHHHHHH......MY PAPA! The 8th we find him.......Oh the numbness is back so heavily today Steve....Hope you are "OK". LOVE and HUGS

Just wanted to personally say "YOU GOT THIS SHIRE DEAL in the bag!!!! I am so truly HAPPY for you Steve...YOU are a WONDERFUL PERSON and YOU WILL AMAZE those around YOU with what YOU have to GIVE...AND.. THANK YOU for the last email...Its so NICE to get a males perspective and it just makes IT that much GREATER being that its coming from one of my DEAREST FRIENDS...You HELP ME SO MUCH..YOU are LOVED...Jeannette

Oh SO TRUE Steve!!!!! SMILE SMILE SMILE!!!!!! Im HAPPY we can have our moments to SMILE.........It can be VERY DIFFICULT at times as YOU well know......BUT......Its EASY to do with FRIENDS like YOU!!!!! And, NO, I didnt mean to rhyme! LOL Love you DEARLY and VALUE our FRIENDSHIP SO VERY MUCH.....Love and Hugs XXXOOO

i grew up basically normal. could never compete well in sports.
no real health problems, just got everything that was going around.
always slightly unwell.
bad growing pains, awkward and clumsy.

my symptoms would wax and wain. sometimes good usually just annoying.
i had 2 or 3 mental breakdowns, due to stress. but usually i handled stress really well.
my mind would wander without me being able to focus properly.

i went to counsellors, but they could never relate to my description of my problem.
it was like i was in a helicopter overlooking my life, i could talk about it, (as a third party).

i was never great at school. i passed because everyone knew i tried hard. always only just making the grade.
orally, i did great, having to write what i knew, was a problem.

i had no staminer, sometimes even raising an arm was an issue.

what eventually led to my diagnosis, was pains in the legs and knees. and right shoulder blade.
i suspected blood clots, and was flying to and from work. working in the mines.
doctors could not find what was wrong, as usual.
eventually a doctor put enough together to send me to a rhuematologist.
i was origionally tested for lupus, to rule it out.

the fibromyalgia diagnoses came about 12 months later.
i have not worried testing for the other complaints, i treat them as symptoms of my main two illnesses.

In November 2012, my wife and I seperated.
My lupus has made me very impersonal, and I also fly off at unimportant things. My emotions are either on or off.
Luckily we still get on well. She just cannot live with the unemotional person I have become. My mood changes have destroyed my childrens relationship with me also.
They are afraid of me, and the mood changes.